REMAND

[verb] [T] legal - to send (a person accused of committing a crime) away from a law court to wait until their trial beginsHe was remanded on theft charges.The report has proposed a ban on remanding boys to adult prisons.The accused was remanded in custody (= kept in prison before the trial began) for a week.If someone accused of a crime is remanded on bail, they are allowed to leave the law court and go to a particular place, usually their home, to wait until their trial begins, after they have paid a sum of money to the court which will not be given back if they do not appear at the trial.